Information processing device and method for distributing information of a facility that faces a road having a predetermined traffic capacity

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11410198-B2
Application number	US-202016778982-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 31, 2020
Priority date	Feb 12, 2019
Publication date	Aug 9, 2022
Grant date	Aug 9, 2022

Abstract

An information processing device includes: a server transmitting and receiving unit configured to receive location information indicating a location of a vehicle from an on-board device mounted on the vehicle; and a server control unit configured to when the vehicle is traveling in an area that the vehicle has visited a predetermined number of times or less, extract a facility that faces a first road located within a predetermined range based on the location information and having traffic capacity equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold, wherein the server transmitting and receiving unit is configured to send advertisement information of the facility to the on-board device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An information processing device, comprising one or more processors configured to:
receive location information indicating a location of a vehicle from an on-board device mounted on the vehicle;
determine whether the vehicle has visited an area less than a predetermined number of times; and
based on the vehicle traveling in the area that the vehicle has visited less than the predetermined number of times:
obtain traffic capacity information corresponding to a traffic capacity of a plurality of roads;
extract a first road, from among the plurality of roads, located within a predetermined range based on the location information and having traffic capacity equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold based on the traffic capacity information,
select, based on the extracting the first road, a facility facing the first road, the facility located within the predetermined range based on the location information, the predetermined range being a range located within a predetermined distance from a current location of the vehicle;
send advertisement information of the facility to the on-board device.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the traffic capacity is determined based on at least one of a width of the first road, the number of lanes of the first road, and a measured number of vehicles that pass a given point on the first road per unit time.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1 , further comprising a road information database that stores identification information of the first road and identification information of the facility in association with each other.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the facility that faces the first road includes a facility having an entrance or a front door located on a first road side.

5. An on-board device mounted on a vehicle, comprising:
a one or more processors configured to:
obtain location information indicating a location of the vehicle;
determine whether the vehicle has visited an area less than a predetermined number of times;
when, based on the location information, the vehicle is traveling in the area that the vehicle has visited less than the predetermined number of times, send the location information to a predetermined information processing device,
receive, from the predetermined information processing device, advertisement information of a facility that faces a first road, extracted from among a plurality of roads, located within a predetermined range based on the location information and having traffic capacity equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold based on traffic capacity information corresponding to a traffic capacity of the plurality of roads, and output the advertisement information to a predetermined display device in the vehicle.

6. The on-board device according to claim 5 , wherein the control unit is configured to receive the advertisement information of the facility located within the predetermined range based on the location information from the predetermined information processing device, the predetermined range being a range located within a predetermined distance from a current location of the vehicle.

7. The on-board device according to claim 5 , wherein the traffic capacity is determined based on at least one of a width of the first road, the number of lanes of the first road, and a measured number of vehicles that pass a given point on the first road per unit time.

8. The on-board device according to claim 5 , wherein the information processing device includes a road information database that stores identification information of the first road and identification information of the facility in association with each other.

9. The on-board device according to claim 5 , wherein the facility that faces the first road includes a facility having an entrance or a front door located on a first road side.

10. An information processing system, comprising:
an on-board device mounted on a vehicle configured to:
obtain location information indicating a location of the vehicle,
determine whether the vehicle has visited an area less than a predetermined number of times, and
send the location information when, based on the location information, the vehicle is traveling in the area that the vehicle has visited less than the predetermined number of times; and

an information processing device configured to:
receive the location information indicating the location of the vehicle from the on-board device,
obtain traffic capacity information corresponding to a traffic capacity of a plurality of roads,
extract a first road, from among the plurality of roads, located within a predetermined range based on the location information and having traffic capacity equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold based on the traffic capacity information,
select, based on the extracting the first road, a facility facing the first road, the facility located within the predetermined range based on the location information, the predetermined range being a range located within a predetermined distance from a current location of the vehicle, and
send advertisement information of the facility to the on-board device, wherein the on-board device is further configured to:
receive the advertisement information from the information processing device, and
output the advertisement information to a predetermined display device in the vehicle.

11. The information processing system according to claim 10 , wherein the information processing device is configured to, when the vehicle is traveling in the area, extract the facility located within the predetermined range based on the location information, the predetermined range being a range located within a predetermined distance from a current location of the vehicle.

12. The information processing system according to claim 10 , wherein the traffic capacity is determined based on at least one of a width of the first road, the number of lanes of the first road, and a measured number of vehicles that pass a given point on the first road per unit time.

13. The information processing system according to claim 10 , wherein the information processing device includes a road information database that stores identification information of the first road and identification information of the facility in association with each other.

14. The information processing system according to claim 10 , wherein the facility that faces the first road includes a facility having an entrance or a front door located on a first road side.

15. An advertisement distribution method, comprising:
receiving location information indicating a location of a vehicle from an on-board device mounted on the vehicle;
determining whether the vehicle has visited an area less than a predetermined number of times;
based on the vehicle traveling in the area that the vehicle has visited less than the predetermined number of times:
obtaining traffic capacity information corresponding to a traffic capacity of a plurality of roads;
extracting a first road, from among the plurality of roads, located within a predetermined range based on the location information and having traffic capacity equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold based on the traffic capacity information;
selecting, based on the extracting the first road, a facility facing the first road, the facility located within the predetermined range based on the location information, the predetermined range being a range located within a predetermined distance from a current location of th

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd
• Hitachi Solutions Ltd

Inventors

• Tanabe Daisuke
• Ueda Yuichiro
• Kobayashi Atsuko
• Iijima Akira
• Yamamoto Manabu
• Goto Hiroyuki

Classifications

• H04W4/021

  Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences · CPC title

• H04W4/23

  for mobile advertising · CPC title

• G06Q30/0259

  based on store location · CPC title

• H04W4/025

  using location based information parameters · CPC title

• H04L67/52 Primary

  specially adapted for the location of the user terminal · CPC title